Clothes-hanging apparatus for use in wardrobes, trunks, warehouses and the like.



1. EV ERITT. OR USE m WARDROBES,

CLOTHES HANGING APPARATUS F TRUNKS, WAREHOUSES, AND THE LIKE.

APPLlCATlON FILED MAY7. 1911.

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CLOTHES-HANGING APPARATUS FOR USE IN WARDROBES,

THE LIKE.

TRUN KS, WAREHOUSES, AN D Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Apr. 16, 1918.

) Application filed May 7, 1917. Serial No. 167,039.

To all whom. it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES EvnRrrT, a subject of the King of Great Britain, residing at 11-19 Lever street, Goswell Road, London, E. (1, in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-Hanging Apparatus for Use in l/Vardrobes, Trunks, Warehouses, and the like, of which the following is a specification.

The invention refers to the hanging of clothing from a tube in wardrobes, trunks and boxes, and provides the hereinafter described and claimed improvements relating thereto.

The invention provides such a tube by a plurality of pieces hinged together in a particular manner to form a single rigid length when opened out and when folded to reduce said length. -The tube is adapted by a longitudinal slot for runners, from which garments are suspended, to work within its interior, and the particular manner of hinging the plurality of pieces for folding and for fastening them together when opened out to form a single rigid length forms the constructional features of the invention.

The improved construction is represented by the accompanying drawings.

Figure 1 shows a side elevation of a clothes-hanging tube formed of two pieces.

. Fig. 2 is a side elevation, on a larger scale, showing the manner of hinging together the two pieces.

Fig. 3 is an underside plan of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation similar to Fig. 2 but with the one tubular piece swung down or folded.

Fig. 5 is a cross section of Fig. 2 on the dotted lines.

The two pieces of the tube are represented at a and c, the latter being adapted to swing down and swing up on the piece a. The piece a at its one end is fixed to the supporting wall y of'the wardrobe, trunk, or the like, or it may be otherwise so fixed.

The inner end of the piece 0 has its bottom portion entirely cut away for a distance,

as at 0*, making its section at this portion of deep inverted channel shape and of slightly larger size than the normal size of the tube, which enlarged size is provided by expanding the top 0 and sides 6 c" of the tube at this and. Within the sides a c" are provided opposite similarly-shaped slots m and 77., extending longitudinally, and also vertically at the inner extremities of said slots, to make said slots bayonet-slot like. This enlarged end of the extension piece 0 is adapted'to fit over the normal sized and sectioned end a of the fixed tubular piece 0;, said enlarged end transversely clipping the normal sized end to efiiciently stay the two tubular pieces a and c to each other both Sidewise and longitudinally. Opposite pivot pins t and a rigidly project from the sides of the piece a to engage the slots m and n, which engagements form permanent connecting devices between the two tubular pieces a and 0. When the tubular piece 0 hangs down in its folded position, as in Fig. 4;, the pins t and u engage the outer ends 1: of the slots. When said piece forms a rigid length, as in Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 5, said pins t and to engage the right angled portions 1: of said slots, in which portions the extreme end 0 of the top 0 engages beneath a projection to fixed to the tubular piece a.

When the two pieces a and 0 form a rigid tube length, as in Figs. 1, 2, 8 and 5, disengagement of the piece 0 from the projection to is prevented by the engagement of the pins 6 and u with the portions 0 of the slots m and n, requiring an initial lifting of the tubular piece 0, to clear the pins t a of the portions 11 before the joint can be broken and the piece 0 swung down.

The cross section of the tubular pieces a and 0 except at the inner end of the piece 0, where its bottom portion is entirely cut away for a distance, the two tubular pieces a and c with a continuous longitudinal slot, :0, in its bottom portion to accommodate the depending parts of runners or trolleys, such as 3, indicated by is such as to provide dotted lines in Figs. 2 and 5, the wheels .9

8 of such runners rolling on the bottom portions, :0 m of the two pieces.

When the two pieces a and c are rigidly fixed to each other to form a one-length tube the runners or trolleys s can travel the interior of the length of said pieces and the garments suspended from them may be easily separated for sorting, etc., while when the piece 0 swings down, as in Fig. 4, all the runners have been previously moved onto the piece a.

Having now described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patlongitudinally and transversely clip the adent is 1. A tube for the purpose specified, comprising a plurality of pieces provided with slots for suspending runners or trolleys to work within them and one piece of which is fixed, and means for hinging the plurality of pieces to each other so that said pieces may form a single rigid length with the slots for the runners or trolleys always in line, the movable piece being downwardly movable on the fixed piece, substantially as described.

torn portion is also longitudinally slotted and which piece is provided withside slots to engage the hinge pins and arranged so that-it engages the projection on the fixed piece, and suspender runners or trolleys adapted to project through the longitudinal slots in their bottom portions, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto setmy hand in presence of two subscribing wit-V 2. A tube for the purpose specified, comnesses. prising a fixed piece longitudinally slotted I JAMES EVERITT.

at its. bottom portion and carrying a fixed Witnesses: projection and opposite hinging pins, a P. V. WEISH,

hinged piece enlarged at its inner end to GRACE E. EDVARDS.

t epiles or? this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner or" Patents,

Washington, D. G.

jacent end of the fixed piece and whose bot- A to work within the two pieces and 

